alpha/beta software in Fedora 8?

[Florian La Roche]

> >From BIND changelog:
> * Tue Jun 19 2007 Adam Tkac <atkac redhat com> 31:9.5.0a5-1
> 
> It means BIND lives in rawhide/F8 about five months and I have
> reported only one more serious issue (#400461, that is why this thread
> was started). I believe that "a" word appended to version feels people
> with dread but I have to say not in this case. I'm ready to downgrade
> F8 BIND to latest stable but I can't see any argument why. One bug?
> Because it is alpha? These are not arguments whose could controvert my
> opinion that it was good decision put 9.5 to F8


Hello Adam,

I think an alpha release might be ok if we need to move forward
for certain features, but we should try hard to stay on a stable
release. So if that is possible, a released version makes much more
sense.

regards,

Florian La Roche